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One late-autumn morning in 1782 Empress Catherine II sat in her study in the Winter Palace drinking coffee and contemplating the fate of Crimea. In her hand was a carefully-crafted letter from Prince Grigory Potemkin, president of the War College,…

Vil'brekht's map is the best cartographic source I have found for the early post-annexation years. It is quite unique in its almost single-minded devotion to mapping villages, and I took the opportunity to digitize every point on the map, along with…

At Marsanda the remains of a church are visible down near the sea, but Keppen is unsure whether this site was fortified. The church on the cape of St. John was behind walls.

Karaite woman with children. Crimean Karaites are an ethnic group derived from Turkic-speaking followers of Karaism found in in Eastern Europe. Karaism is a denomination of judaism. Demidov notes that on a visit to the home of the rabbi of Chufut…

2,000 desiatinas of land and 4 desiatinas of orchards in the Otuz Valley.

372 Greeks abandoned this area in 1778.

5 Greeks abandoned this area in 1778.